Trends in age- and sex-specific mortality rates for all causes of death for Indians in Minnesota during the years 1960-79 were examined using the Mantel-Haenszel chi-square extension test. Indians younger than 15 years of age were not included in the analysis because of the changes in classification for Indian race in census reports for Indian children and adolescents, known decreases in Indian infant mortality, and the small number of deaths among Indian children and adolescents during the years 1960-79. Declines in mortality rates were observed for Indian men and women 75 years of age and older, men 65 through 74 years of age, and women 25 through 54 years of age. Overall, only 8 percent of men and 53 percent of women were in age groups that showed declining mortality rates for all causes of death during the years 1960-79. The greatest decline in mortality rates for men and women occurred among those 75 years of age and older. Mortality rates for Indians in Minnesota declined during the study period for fewer than half of the age groups. Such strategies as risk factor surveillance, public health programs, and medical interventions need to be directed toward these groups that have not experienced the same declines in mortality rates as nearly all age groups of whites, both nationwide and in Minnesota, during the same period.
According to the 1980 census, blacks in Suffolk County on Long Island, NY, had a median family income of almost $20,000 versus $12,618 for blacks in the entire United States, or only 20 percent lower than that for whites in the county. Black-white ra...
In July 1987, a workshop was held to evaluate the environmental health workforce. The workshop was sponsored by the Bureau of Health Professions. Health Resources and Services Administration of the Public Health Service. Participants were drawn from ...
Henderson, W G; Eisen, S; Goldberg, J; True, W R; Barnes, J E; Vitek, M E;
Published Date:
1990 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 105(4):368-373
Description:
The Vietnam Era Twin Registry consists of 4,774 male-male twin pairs born between 1939 and 1957 with both brothers having served in the United States military during the Vietnam War. The registry was originally developed to provide the best control g...
Community water fluoridation has served the American public extremely well as the cornerstone of dental caries prevention activities for 45 years. The dental and general health benefits associated with the ingestion of water-borne fluorides have been...
The need to integrate social and medical services to deal with the issues of child abuse prevention and treatment has been documented frequently. In rural areas, referral to the various programs developed to reach the at-risk child is hampered by lac...
Studies of liver cancer mortality are subject to confusion attributable to the changes in categories by which liver cancer is identified in successive revisions of the International Classification of Diseases. To determine the effects of these change...
Gulaid, J A; Hadsall, R S; Sacks, J J; Wertheimer, A I;
Published Date:
1990 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 105(4):430-432
Description:
In an investigation of the prevalence of safety packaging of medications, 131 randomly selected Minneapolis and St. Paul households with children were surveyed in 1985. Of the 1,953 oral medications in these households (mean was 14.9 per home), 43.3 ...
This cross-sectional survey was undertaken to examine whether the homeless poor have a higher prevalence of risk factors for ill health than the nonhomeless poor. Seventy-one adults in four age groups who attended a free-meal program in northern Cali...
Ershoff, D H; Quinn, V P; Mullen, P D; Lairson, D R;
Published Date:
1990 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 105(4):340-347
Description:
The results of a randomized clinical trial of a prenatal self-help smoking cessation program are reported in terms of the pregnancy and cost outcomes. The study population were the socioeconomically and ethnically diverse members of a large health ma...
Seven State health departments, those in Illinois, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, have participated in an effort to utilize a variety of State-specific cancer-related data to describe the cancer burden in their ...
Associated with the increased popularity of cats as pets in American households has been an increase in the number of cat bites reported to health departments. Bite reports from Dallas, TX, for 1985 were analyzed for different aspects of the cat bite...
The investigators considered the relationship between participation in aquatic activities and the consumption of alcohol, with their implications for the risk of drowning. In a telephone survey with random-digit dialing, interviewers asked Massachuse...
Data from the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were used to estimate arithmetic mean blood lead and percent with elevated blood lead [25 micrograms per deciliter (micrograms per dl) or greater] for 4-11-year-old Mexican American, Puer...
Lindan, C P; Hearst, N; Singleton, J A; Trachtenberg, A I; Riordan, N M; Tokagawa, D A; Chu, G S;
Published Date:
1990 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 105(4):400-404
Description:
A disproportionately high number of AIDS cases in the United States involve members of racial minorities. Even so, AIDS deaths of minority members may be undercounted. The completeness of reporting of AIDS deaths to the California AIDS Registry (ARS)...
National Injury Control Conference: Translating Knowledge and Technology to Public Policy and Action (2nd : September 15-17, 1988 : San Antonio, TX)
Published Date:
1990 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 105(4):329-333
Description:
In a 1988 appraisal of the status and progress of the injury control program at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), a National Academy of Sciences' Review Committee applauded the rapid progress made by CDC in 3 years, including the competitive eva...
The Abbreviated Injury Scale with Epidemiologic Modifications (AIS 85-EM) was developed to make it possible to code information about anatomic injury types and locations that, although generally available from medical records, is not codable under th...
The leading cause of death among black people in the United States is coronary heart disease, accounting for about 25 percent of the deaths. The Task Force on Black and Minority Health formed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in 1985 subs...
Lando, H A; Johnson, K M; Graham-Tomasi, R P; McGovern, P G; Solberg, L;
Published Date:
1992 May-Jun
Source:
Public Health Rep. 107(3):340-344
Description:
Little is known about smoking patterns of urban American Indians and their interest in quitting. Most published research has focused upon American Indians who live on rural reservations. In this study, personal interviews were conducted with a conven...
Nett, Randall J.; Choi, Peter; Murolo, Cara; Murphy, James S.;
Published Date:
Oct 17 2014
Source:
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014; 63(41):937.
Description:
In May 2012, the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services noted that 23 cases of gonorrhea were reported in Roosevelt County during October 2011-March 2012, compared with only three cases during January-September 2011. An analysis of su...